Lot 106

There is a small abrasion to the lower centre edge, however work is otherwise in good condition. Framed size measuring 153 x 171cm.


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The National Australia Bank Art Collection (label verso)

The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 October - 28 November 1982

The Sound of the Sky, The Northern Territory in Australian Art, The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 7 April - 16 July 2006

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 19, p. 32 (illus.)
"Red Desert 1972 oscillates between an aerial 'bird's-eye-view' of the landscape which is dissected by the flat red river, and alternatively a conventional pictorial perspective, a landscape where the two centrally curved shapes represent the crests of hills separated by the red shadow of the valley between." (excerpt, p. 32)

Cassab, J. Judy Cassab Diaries, Random House Australia, 1995, p. 224